EZRA LEVANT ｜ Irish government 'oppresses' citizenry with open border immigration
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I'm back in Canada and I've got more video from my trip to Ireland, and I want to tell you some lessons I learned. Obviously, not everything I learned there is applicable to Canada, and Ireland has a very different history and demography, but there are some things I learned when I was over there. I'd like to share them with you.
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Hello, my friends. I'm back in Canada from my trip to Ireland, and I've got more video to show you.
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And I want to tell you some lessons I've learned from Ireland. Obviously, not everything there
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is applicable to Canada. They have a very different history and demography. But there
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are some things I learned when I was over there. I'd like to share them with you. And I want to
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show you what I saw. It was a feast for the eyes, as you can imagine. So I really want to encourage
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And it shows. All right, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, what I learned in Ireland. It's May 8th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Hey, there's no place like home. Sometimes I get to go to pretty cool places to report the news.
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I was in Dublin, Ireland for exactly 25 hours. So there wasn't any time to do sightseeing. But
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the sites we did see were political sites. We were looking at the tent encampments of migrants
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who have no place to go. We covered the big march against immigration. I sometimes travel to places
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outside Canada to tell the stories of the world. But usually, it's because we can tie those stories
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back to Canada. You might recall about a year ago, I went to Marseille, France, that was having riots
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because of Muslim extremists who weren't getting along with the ethnic French. There were lessons
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to be learned there too. In London, UK, we sometimes visit, especially to cover the trial,
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the ongoing trials of Tommy Robinson about freedom of speech. What happens in London today is likely to
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happen here in a few years. Same thing with Marseille. What's interesting about Ireland is that they're
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ahead of us in terms of fighting back. I've never heard of a mass march in Canada against immigration.
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They sure had that in Ireland the other day. I learned some interesting things about Ireland,
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things that maybe I knew but never thought about. For example, the Irish are an indigenous people.
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What I mean by that is they're the Celts. They're the first people who were there.
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They didn't colonize anyone. They didn't kick anyone out. And if you want to use the woke terminology,
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they've been the oppressed. They've been fighting against outsiders for centuries.
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So how does wokeness work in the argument? Typically, in places like Canada or the United States,
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oh, you're evil white people, you're on occupied land. In the case of the United States,
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Black Lives Matter, there's a legacy of slavery, etc. None of that really works.
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They are the ones who, to use their phrase, 800 years of rebellion. I'm not here to talk about
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the battle between Britain and Ireland. I'm not here to get involved in those old and ancient
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disputes of which I know very little. My point by referencing this is to say the woke accusation
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that if you're a white person, you are inherently racist and inherently guilty of historical crimes
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that happened before you were even born, Ireland is one of the places that just doesn't work.
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Ireland didn't pick on anyone. They didn't go on global adventures and enslave people. In fact,
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as I mentioned the other day, the Irish were taken as slaves, including the amazing and incredible
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and terrifying story of the village of Baltimore, Ireland, where a Barbary pirates' raiding boat,
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Muslim slave traders, raided Baltimore, Ireland, kidnapped every single person in the village.
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They emptied out the town and took them back to Africa to be white slaves. That's the story of Ireland.
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They were the slaves, not the slaver. And so it was interesting when I saw some counter-protesters,
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the open borders types, what were they saying? What could they say? Well, here's a clip
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of my encounter with them as I was walking along with the marchers.
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Behind me, the counter-protesters, a line of guard eye. That's what they call their police.
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You can see that they're quite worried about the two sides coming into contact. There's one guard
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eye officer filming things, I think, for souvenir purposes. I think the numbers on the other side,
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if I had to estimate, I'd say there's about 110 people. Nah, more like shy of 100. I'd say there's
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about 90 people. There's more police than counter-protesters. Most of the signs on the other
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side are prefabricated signs, as opposed to many of the homemade signs on this side. And I'll tell
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you one other thing I just noticed. On this side, hundreds of Irish flags. On that side,
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I don't see a single Irish flag. I see three Palestinian flags. And I see a mysterious flag
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that I cannot identify. But there's not a single Irish flag on the other side. And doesn't that
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tell you something? I'm going to step about a foot away from these big cops, because I
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N-G-O scum! N-G-O scum! N-G-O scum! N-G-O scum! N-G-O scum! N-G-O scum! N-G-O scum!
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They're chanting N-G-O scum. That's a very interesting thing to say. The people in this anti-migration
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march think that their opponents are the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, N-G-O's,
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as much as any domestic political party. And I think they're right. Thank you very much.
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Very friendly here. Lots of Rebel News fans, even here in Ireland. I correct myself. I see
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a single Irish flag on the other side, on which is written Black Lives Matter. As I mentioned
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before, this side has co-opted the phrase, and says, Irish Lives Matter. I think both
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lives matter. As I mentioned in my comments, there were no Irish flags on the side of the
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counter-protesters, except for the one that was marked up, Black Lives Matter. Again, that's
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such an unusual thing to hear in Ireland. I mean, yes, I believe Black Lives Matter. Sure
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I do. But what a strange argument to come from a place that never had slavery, that does
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not have historic guilt, if even anyone should. But they felt guilty about their own colors.
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They had Palestinian flags. And they had prefabricated signs and flags. They were prefab leftists,
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which, you know, I think they were just taking instructions. I saw a tweet that someone identified
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someone in the crowd, an actor from the hit TV series, Game of Thrones. I think the character
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was the Lord of the Onions or something. If you were an actor in the Game of Thrones, I'm
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going to go out on a limb, given the success of that franchise, and say, you're probably a
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millionaire. It wasn't a small role. So will a millionaire Irish fancy pants, I mean, if
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you're a global success actor, you got a few bucks, will he open his mansion to these migrants?
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Or does he like to have an alarm system, a security system, and a high wall around the
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things that he protects? What was interesting to me was seeing the responses and the reaction
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from the establishment, including from the left wing political party called Sinn Féin,
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which in the past was associated with the Irish Republican Army. So they're hardcore leftists.
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And it was interesting to see how they described this mass populist movement.
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They said it was foreign meddlers who were stirring things up. I didn't see any foreigners.
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I mean, I guess I was a foreigner, but I was there as a reporter. I heard one person with an
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American accent give a speech, but she had moved to Ireland. I didn't see any foreigners.
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In fact, it felt extremely Irish to me, certainly lots of Irish flags.
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The Sinn Féin also blamed Zionists. And again, not that I can detect a Jew on sight.
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I mean, unless they're wearing conspicuous Jewish garb. I didn't see any Jews in the entire crowd.
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There's not a lot of Jews in Ireland. Sinn Féin was denouncing the marchers as foreigners,
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as Zionists or Jews. And I thought this was amazing as British intelligence agents.
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And I, again, I don't want to wade into territory I know little about, but of course,
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the British and the Troubles and Northern Ireland. And I mean, obviously, Ireland and the UK have had a quarrel
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going back centuries. I'm not here to take sides in that. I just don't know enough about it.
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But it's quite something that that's the go-to insult.
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Oh, if you're against mass immigration, you must be a pawn of British intelligence.
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I mean, I guess Justin Trudeau reaches for, you're a transphobe. You're a racist.
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I guess in Ireland they say, you're in league with the British spies or something.
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It was sort of an ironic challenge, given that the open borders types, they're the ones in league with the globalists,
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which with the World Economic Forum types who want open borders and want Ireland to be the next sacrifice zone.
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I liked the fact that those protesters were chanting against NGOs, non-governmental organizations,
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like the UN and the World Economic Forum. That's sort of a sophisticated thing to say.
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And if I had to pick which side is taking orders from outside the country,
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I'm sorry, the folks who aren't flying the Irish flag, the folks who are talking about the global,
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you know, Palestinian movement, and the folks who are in league with the NGOs,
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I'm going to say those are the ones who aren't representing true Irish.
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You know, I think that I learned a lot in Ireland, even though I was only there for 25 hours.
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I met a lot of friends, and I have things I'm sure I'll think about for many months.
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In fact, I'm sure that there's things I witnessed in my whistle-stop tour to Ireland
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that I won't even know taught me something until something comes up in Canada.
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And I'd say, oh, I remember when I was in Dublin and I saw this.
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So I feel it's useful to see how the immigration battle is going over there.
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And I was so glad that I was able to get there and back, and my videographer, Efron, came with me.
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Do you remember when Efron and I went to Marseille, France?
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I mean, let me show you an interview that we stumbled upon that I thought about a dozen times.
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He was a man who, to me, on the outside, looked very modern and very assimilated.
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He looked very Western in his attire, very sharp.
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He wasn't dressed fancy, but he was dressed clean and modern and hip, and he had a ball cap.
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Here, listen to what he said in that interview, which in some ways is a premonition
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of what we're seeing in our streets this year. Take a look at this guy.
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In your heart, are you in Algeria or in the first French?
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Take a look at it. Take a look at it. Take a look at it. Take a look at it.
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But, gentlemen, if you want to say that I am a French number one, are you racist?
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We're not racist. I said and I repeat it. The world belongs to everyone.
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Every human being can live where he wants. There's no problem with that.
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We live where we want. The earth belongs to the good God, and we belong to the good God.
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We live where we want. There's no limit. It's good.
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I was only there for 25 hours, so I don't want to come across as a know-it-all.
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There was no time for sightseeing. I'd like to go back one day.
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I mean, it's just when you go to an ancient place with castles that are ruins of hundreds of years ago, you realize how new Canada is.
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And in some ways, how lucky we are that we're not trapped by old quarrels that have gone on for, as the Irish say, 800 years.
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We really have a wonderful opportunity in our country to make a fresh start, and we did, I think.
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I think Canada has always been harmonious, at least since the Battle of the Plains of Abraham when the French and the English came to a working rapport.
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And you can have your quarrels with Quebec. Lord knows I do when it comes to politics.
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As it was said a century ago, we're a fireproof house far away from inflammable materials.
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Canada has had no war on our territory since, I guess, the War of 1812 when we went down to sack the White House.
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But I'm afraid that troubles have been imported here en masse, and I'm worried about that.
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One thing that was very interesting was how friendly everyone there was to Rebel News, which was a real surprise to me.
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I don't think I've done 10 videos in my life on Ireland.
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I did one on their constitution and motherhood being in there, which was wonderful.
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And we've interviewed some of their journalists, Ben Scallon and Fatima Gunning from Gript.
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But I really think when I say I've done 10 videos on them, that really is it.
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And maybe that sounds like a lot, but we've done 50,000 videos here at Rebel News over the years.
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So for us to be recognized, I'm not exaggerating when I say 30 people probably came up to us.
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And not just in the march when you might think, OK, they're politically turned on.
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But when we went out to the encampment of the migrants in a totally different neighborhood, one guy just walking his dog, another walking by, recognized us.
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And we were later near a bus stop, and someone walked by.
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It was amazing and surprising because, to be candid, we've never really put any effort into Ireland.
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Ireland is so craving of another point of view.
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Now, they have that website called Gript, G-R-I-P-T dot IE.
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We've interviewed them before, and they're great.
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The fact that they crave more content that is sympathetic and interesting and contrarian tells me it's a deep need.
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I have to say, and I've conferred with my colleague Efron, who really covered the truckers very deeply.
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Efron and I both got that trucker feeling that these are often working class people, although people from all walks of life were there.
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That they were full of passion and love for their country, and they were sick of being ignored and sick of being abused by the entire establishment.
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The same way we despise the CBC state broadcaster here.
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Oh boy, they felt the exact same way about the RTE state broadcaster over there.
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There were very many similarities, including the fact that at least for now, no big establishment parties will give these people any time.
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I haven't seen the polling in Ireland, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably the same as it is here in Canada.
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People are fed up with overwhelming immigration numbers that just can't be absorbed.
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And so you have the will of the people that is being ignored by the entire establishment.
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That's sort of what the truckers were about too.
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So I'm going to play a little bit more for you from the trip to Ireland.
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And if you're not that interested, don't worry.
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We got it out of our system for now and we'll get back to covering shocking news in Canada.
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David Menzies going to the University of Toronto to see the anti-Semitism there.
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We have reporters, as you know, in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa.
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But what we saw in Ireland, I think, is what it might look like if Canadians finally have the courage to march against unbridled immigration.
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That's just too much for the country to absorb.
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And until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, good night.
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I'm standing in front of a protest that has been here for weeks.
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Who are these men and what are they protesting?
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They're Irishmen from the neighborhood of Kulak who are protesting an empty warehouse that used to be owned by a paint company.
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It's a massive warehouse in which is planned a migrant residence.
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What they plan to do, the government, is turn this warehouse, which used to store paint, into a home for 500 to 1,000 migrants, including some single men.
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They seek to put modular homes into this building.
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And these people in the local community are saying they can't bear that.
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Some of them say to have this many single men in this neighborhood with nothing to do is a risk.
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Especially given that right across the street is the bowling alley, the Burger King, the place where all the kids mill around.
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Putting hundreds of military aged foreign men unemployed right across the street could upset the neighborhood.
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Could cause issues ranging from safety to access to services.
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One of the complaints is who will service these newcomers.
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I think the number one complaint, though, talking to some of the men who have staffed the protest around the clock, is that nobody asked them.
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In fact, we just met one man who recognized us from Rebel News and thanked us for our work.
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He was very articulate, very passionate, and, to use a phrase, severely normal.
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I asked him if he would say anything on camera.
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He said he couldn't because he's part of the army.
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And for him to express himself could get in trouble.
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We've met a lot of people who are familiar with our work, and it's a delight to hear that.
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It tells us that the themes we talk about on Rebel News apply to other countries as well.
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One of the things that these men remind me of are the movement, the freedom movement in Canada.
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They're grassroots people, working class people, who feel completely shut out by the political elites.
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You can hear the horn honking in support as they drove by.
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It reminds me of the anti-carbon tax protest that I saw by the side of the hideaway west of Calgary.
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This same spirit of ordinary people fighting back, not just against their national government, but against some sort of globalist agenda.
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Now, when you use the word globalist agenda, people in the establishment roll their eyes.
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But it's real, because it's certainly not a national agenda.
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Nobody in Kulak has voted to put 500 to 1,000 people in their neighborhood without asking.
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They didn't have a debate in the Irish Parliament.
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We went from a quarter million migrants a year to 2 million, to 2.2 million, 900,000 foreign students, 600,000 foreign workers alone.
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They get together at places like the United Nations and the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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But a few weeks ago, 2,000 local Irishmen peacefully protested on this major walk.
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We were just starting to film and someone was nearby.
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And I asked him if he wanted to come on camera.
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And in the last two years, it has taken an enormous number of migrants, including more
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And remember that they're one eighth of the side of Canada.
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So that would be like a million people from Ukraine in Canada.
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We'll be going downtown for what's expected to be a very large march today.
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These men warned us that the Antifa side, the Marxist side, and I think I heard them say
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the Gaza protesters, they're planning to come out with a counter protest.
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So you're going to have all these grassroots Irishmen saying Ireland is full.
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Illegal male immigrants housed before 11,500 homeless people.
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Well, in some cases, as we saw earlier today, they're not even housed.
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The fact that these people have an around-the-clock vigil tells me that there's a passion.
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The fact that I hear horns honking in the background tells me it is an opinion shared by people.
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The fact that people tell me their thoughts but ask not to be on camera tells me that there's a danger to speaking up
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because you'll be marginalized or cancelled by polite society.
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I suppose the massive march today is a way to change that and show the world that ordinary Irish people,
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not the far right, have deep concerns about what's going on.
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I'll have more later today for all of my reports.
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And if you think this is important citizen journalism,
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feel free to chip in a few dollars, pounds or euros
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to cover our economy class, airfare and hotel to come out here.
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Send them home! Send them home! Send them home! Send them home! Send them home!
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A lot of speeches including by political candidates on various levels of government.
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Two years ago, I wasn't decided to ruin the election.
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Because it's gone to the cost with the people in the door
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that want to need rescue for the Americans and give it to a partner for free.
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And which level, which office are you running for?
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a very large number of the voters are foreign nationals.
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And she didn't think that she would have good luck there
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running on an anti-immigration campaign platform.
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but it might want to be more Irish people in the community.
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But there is people from different nationalities living there.
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People in Ireland, Ezreal, have had enough of this.
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Illegal immigration is affecting every country,
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but it's affecting Ireland really, really badly.
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Look, we've had 200,000 hospital appointments cancelled last year, right?
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People are being means-tested for medical cards and carers' payments,
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and the government just keep hitting down on them, hitting down.
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You're down here, the IFFC is just down the road,
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and you're looking at 4,000 euro a month, right?
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So people that walk and say Starbucks or McDonald's and all,
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But what's happening is we're bringing in thousands upon thousands
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Let me stop you there because you said that twice.
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Like, how are they physically getting to Ireland?
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I spoke to a couple of migrants down at the camp today
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who, the way they described it, and they didn't talk to me a lot,
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but they made it seem like they were responding to an invitation
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Well, when I say illegal, I mean they're being sent here.
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So they go to Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK,
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Yeah, and then they come down to the I-Pass building
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And then also, they're arriving on the plane into Dublin,
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And what countries are they coming from to do that?
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Look, they're coming from Somalia, Nigeria, Georgia, Afghanistan.
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A lot of the things they're doing as well, Ezra,
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is some of them are coming on what's called a student thing
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And then they start walking and say the Liverpool drivers
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the ones that are arriving now in the thousands,
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they're coming across the border from Northern Ireland.
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And now, like, the singles, there's no room for them.
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because most of them are in hotels getting free accommodation,
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breakfast, lunch, dinner, a weekly payment, right?
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Now, you say you're running for local office, and I wish you luck.
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But it seems to me that the larger parties on the national level...
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Now, you correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm certainly not an expert.
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But it sounds like all of them support open borders immigration.
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I can't even pronounce some of the party names.
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But am I right to say that they all support open borders?
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Sinn Féin are someone I voted for all my life.
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But after the election, if they were to get voted in, they'd go into power with Fianna Fáil.
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If they don't get enough votes, they would go into coalition with them.
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Piers started the Sinn Féin only the other day flew over to the UK in London.
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And he was agreeing with all the vulture funds.
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These vulture funds are causing big problems here.
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And he was saying, if we get in, we'll tame the so-called far right.
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So what they call the far right in Ireland nowadays is concerned parents worried about the communities and services.
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You're Fianna Fáil, Fianna Gael, Sinn Féin, the social democrats, people before profit.
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The people on the hospital list, elderly people, you know, euthanasia only mentioned on that.
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And I'm pro-life and I'm not ashamed to say it, right?
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And all these topics, any time anything comes up, the mainstream media drowns you out,
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doesn't want you to have a say, and they just agree with what the government is.
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In fact, democracy is so bad in Ireland, right, that there's a station called Russia Today.
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They've banned that station on TV because they said, oh, it's one-way biased.
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Democracy is, like, Rebel News should be a mainstream TV.
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There's been a lot of friendly folks welcoming us here.
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No, but what it is, is you're going across the globe, right?
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And this WHO nonsense are just, you see the Build Up Oga group, everybody knows what's going on.
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Two years ago, I wouldn't have ran in the election.
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I've done an interview with a woman whose child tried to snatch out of a garden the other day.
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Listen, my friend, it's been a pleasure talking with you.
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And it's great to see that you are actually going to get a message out.